IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."

[John Carvill]

Robin, not wanting to argue, but could you please read the thread
prior to issuing statements such as 'not impossible at all'?

We already said, it's possible, for example, that Doc could have been
standing at the back door and threfore watched Shasta come up. Of
course, that would mean his back door would have to command a view of
the steps *and* the alley Shasta comes up.

So we weren't saying it is *impossible*.

Still it's pleasingly elastic and elusive the way the narrative winds
in behind Shasta and then settles on Doc for the rest of the book.